Grey Legacy is a science fiction webcomic by Wayne Wise and Fred Wheaton that was originally published in print form. The comic is hosted on Drunk Duck. The comic was among the first ever to win a Xeric Award in 1992.

Synopsis

''Grey Legacy'' is about Greylock, a student at an interstellar academy, and his rise to fame. Roommate of Lesterfarr, Greylock meets

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Bilmar, who was captured by the university and who pretends to be mute and dumb in order to avoid attention. The three eventually team up in a series of interstellar adventures.

Development

Throughout the 1980s, Wayne Wise and Fred Wheaton created ''Grey Legacy'' as a series of

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s. The series was eventually published in print as an anthology in 1992 thanks to a grant by the

Xeric Foundation The Xeric Foundation is a private, nonprofit corporation based in Northampton, Massachusetts, which for twenty years awarded self-publishing grants to comic book creators, as well as qualified charitable and nonprofit organizations. The Xeric Fou ...

. ''Grey legacy'' became one of the first four comics to win the Xeric Grant, but the comic series was unable to gain any more significant success throughout the 1990s.

References

External links

Grey Legacy
on Drunk Duck
Fred Wheaton Homepage
2000s webcomics 1992 comics debuts Science fiction webcomics American webcomics Webcomics in print 2007 webcomic debuts {{webcomics-stub